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Matthew 15 192
which my heavenly Father has not planted,
shall be rooted up.
14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders
of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
15 Then answered Peter and said to him,
Declare to us this parable.
16 And Jesus said, Are you also yet without
understanding?
17 Do not you yet understand, that whatsoever
enters in at the mouth goes into the
belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out
of the mouth come forth from the heart;
and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a
man: but to eat with unwashed hands
defiles not a man.
21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed
into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan
came out of the same coasts, and cried to
him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord,
you Son of David; my daughter is grievously
vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word.
And his disciples came and besought him,
saying, Send her away; for she cries after
us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not
sent but to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not
meet to take the children’s bread, and to
cast it to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the
dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from
their masters’ table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said to her,
O woman, great is your faith: be it to
you even as you will. And her daughter
was made whole from that very hour.
29 And Jesus departed from thence, and
came near to the sea of Galilee; and went
up into a mountain, and sat down there.
30 And great multitudes came to him,
having with them those that were lame,
blind, dumb, maimed, and many others,
and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he
healed them:
31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered,
when they saw the dumb to speak,
the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk,
and the blind to see: and they glorified
the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him,
and said, I have compassion on the multitude,
because they continue with me
now three days, and have nothing to eat:
and I will not send them away fasting,
lest they faint in the way.
33 And his disciples said to him, Whence
should we have so much bread in the wilderness,
as to fill so great a multitude?
34 And Jesus said to them, How many
loaves have you? And they said, Seven,
and a few little fishes.
15:19 The spiritual nature of the Law. Notice how the sins named are transgressions of the
Moral Law—the Ten Commandments. If civil law can prove that you are planning to assassinate the
president, you can be prosecuted and severely punished. That law, however, is limited in its search
for evidence—it can’t see what a man thinks. Not so with the all-seeing eye of our Creator. His Law
searches the heart. He sees “evil thoughts,” and requires truth in the inward parts (Psalm 51:6). To
think hatred is to commit murder (1 John 3:15) and transgress the Sixth Commandment. To think
lustfully is to commit adultery (Matthew 5:27,28) and transgress the Seventh. Fornication breaks
the same Commandment (Galatians 5:19). Then Jesus names theft (Eighth Commandment), false
witness (Ninth), and blasphemies (Third). A person cannot lust without breaking the Tenth, and by
their nature, these sins transgress the remaining four Commandments. All sin traces in some way
back to the Moral Law, for sin is transgression of the Law (1 John 3:4). This is why the Law must be
used to bring the knowledge of sin to religious people who are trusting in their own righteous
deeds for their salvation.